ARM9 Data Abort on new 3DS XL in Phantom Hourglass

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Hi Guys,

I am getting Arm 9 data abort error at a specific spot in game playing phantom hourglass, about halfway through the game starting in Goron temple every time when I try to move the first rock game goes to arm 9 error.

Have already tested my SD card using H2testw and it passed. I am also on the latest Luma and Twilight revisions and haven't seen this issue pop up anywhere else. I've tried multiple roms from multiple sources, one of which I know to be pretty reliable.

Is there anyway to verify *.nds files against known good copies and is there anything else I should try? Would CTRTransfer or CTRTransfer (Type D9) be worth it since everything else seems to be operating as normal?

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Ss9918 said:
Hi Guys,

I am getting Arm 9 data abort error at a specific spot in game playing phantom hourglass, about halfway through the game starting in Goron temple every time when I try to move the first rock game goes to arm 9 error.

Have already tested my SD card using H2testw and it passed. I am also on the latest Luma and Twilight revisions and haven't seen this issue pop up anywhere else. I've tried multiple roms from multiple sources, one of which I know to be pretty reliable.

Is there anyway to verify *.nds files against known good copies and is there anything else I should try? Would CTRTransfer or CTRTransfer (Type D9) be worth it since everything else seems to be operating as normal?

Thanks
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Could you post an image of the arm9 data abort? And the Zelda save file too so we can debug it.
 
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Here is the screenshot I am getting and attached save file

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Here is the screenshot I am getting and attached save file

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How is that an arm 9 error? That looks like an nds-bootstrap error, so whatever that's causing it to crash has to do with it, maybe an incompatibility/ bug or something.
Btw, you're using TWilightmenu, right? I'd suggest updating it to the latest version if you're not on it already (it'd update nds-bootstrap too).
 
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CoolMe said:
How is that an arm 9 error? That looks like an nds-bootstrap error, so whatever that's causing it to crash has to do with it, maybe an incompatibility/ bug or something.
Btw, you're using TWilightmenu, right? I'd suggest updating it to the latest version if you're not on it already (it'd update nds-bootstrap too).
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Yes TWighlight menu, Before I updated twilight it was showing arm 9 so I updated both twilight and luma so they are on the latest versions but the error is occurring at the same place
 
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Yes TWighlight menu, Before I updated twilight it was showing arm 9 so I updated both twilight and luma so they are on the latest versions but the error is occurring at the same place
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I think the game is known to work, you sure you don't have any issues/errors with other DS games?
Not sure if having a setting enabled in Twilightmenu could cause an bootstrap error, i'll tag @RocketRobz he'd shed some light into the matter.:)
 
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Got it working changed the clock speed to 133hz didnt't realize there was this other screen in TWilight thanks guys!
 
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Hi

I am having the same issue but I have tried changing the ARM9 cpu speed to 133hz and it didn't worked, I have no "usrcheat.dat" in my extras folder and I never enabled the cheats. Can somebody help ?
 

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